I find it highly similar to ARK, that is, if you take away the dinos. It is incredibly popular with gamers that like survival-type games. Obviously it would be great if they could come out with a blog post to indicate to people who will actually play on their Steam Decks and on Linux, but until then we can only dream.Rust has been a trendy game for nearly a decade (the game was first released on PC on December 11th of 2013).

I genuinely think we are going to get Rust on Linux, up and running for all servers. We used to have Facepunch shouldering most of the responsibility of working on Linux support for Rust by themselves, but now we're in an age of Valve doing all the work on the game actually running, and as Garry confirmed in the last quote ' EAC are working on' fixes to anti-cheat on Linux, which in itself is adding context to the FacePunch employee from Discord's comments. I think things have changed at Facepunch dramatically since their 2019 dropping of support for Linux. He said ' linux sux #ad' in 2019, but when prompted about Linux and Rust later down the road in 2021 in response to Tim Sweeney's EAC announcement he said ' There's a lot of back end stuff we need to work through iirc' says ' does' run well on Steam Deck and in response to someone else about enabling EAC for all of Linux he said ' EAC are working on it, we're working with them to make it happen.' Concluding. I'll go in chronological order for accuracy's sake because I think his views may have genuinely changed. Garry has made a couple of comments on it. He also kept it short in another comment, again repeating that there are technical issues with EAC working in Linux systems, but not expanding on what he meant by that. Getting EAC fully compatible with different systems is technical and I just don't have the knowhow in that area to say what needs to happen for it to work but I can assure you that any progress made in that area will be posted about and you will hear about it.Ĭompatibility is something we've been exploring but no ETA or anything The steamdeck should work on unsecured servers currently but these aren't displayed in the server browser and it will be hard to find them. One user who asked 'Do you know when EAC will be supported for steam deck' in March 2022 got the below response from Facepunch. They have however made a couple of comments in the official Rust Discord server to users who ask. If we look to official statements Facepunch has made, they haven't made any big comments since 2019. We know spam when we see it and will delete it. This means things like repetitious posting of similar content, low-effort posts/memes and misleading/exaggerated titles on link posts. We all need to support each other to help GNU/Linux gaming grow.

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